Sökning: "patienthood"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet patienthood.
1. Patienternas psykiatri : En studie av institutionella erfarenheter
Sammanfattning : The study deals with the experiences of patients in psychiatric care as documented in retrospective interviews, and in letters, novels, report books and magazine articles from the 50s to the 90s in Sweden. The patients' perspective on the encounter with psychiatry is systematically put into focus by thematising a large number of patient's accounts. LÄS MER
2. Please Be Patient : A Cultural Phenomenological Study of Haemodialysis and Kidney Transplantation Care
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the practice of haemodialysis and kidney transplantation, the two medical therapies available for persons with kidney failure, from a phenomenological perspective. A basic assumption made in the thesis is that contemporary biomedicine is deeply embedded in the cultural, historical, economic, and political circumstances provided by the particular local, national, and transnational contexts in which it is practiced. LÄS MER
3. Självskada : En etnologisk studie av mening och identitet i berättelser om skärande
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis is about people who write about their self-harm on Internet message boards. The aim of the study is to understand how meaning is produced in relation to self-harm, and how this involves particular constructions of self-harmer identity. LÄS MER
4. Boteberättelser : En etnologisk studie av boteprocesser och det omprövande patientskapet
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyse how life-histories are expressed and reformulated in connection to a life crisis of ill health. The study is based on ten interviews with people who in connection with ill health have made use of treatments within both orthodox medicine and complementary medicine and who have also developed various forms of self-treatment. LÄS MER
5. Kunskap, kontrovers och kvicksilver : debatten om amalgamförgiftning i det sena 1900-talets Sverige
Sammanfattning : This dissertation in the history of science and ideas studies the Swedish dental amalgam controversy in the late 20th century. Erupting in the early 1980s, the controversy concerned the issue of whether mercury containing dental amalgams could poison those who had had their teeth filled, or whether the many patients making such claims were in fact suffering from stress, unresolved trauma, or other illnesses. LÄS MER
